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April 17, 2008

Flickr test

Messing around with Flickr feeds and plugins. This one seems to work ok. I was on holiday last week up in Bahia. Mum came over with my Aunt as well, and spent 7 days sunning ourselves and playing with my daughter. What a great way to spend your holidays. Except for the small mishap when [...]

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April 3, 2008

Mouthpieces and set-ups - Intro

Although I joked a bit in the last post, the subject of mouthpieces and set-ups has always created heated conversations between reed players. So I thought I would expand a bit on this subject and enter the debate. There are those who are never happy with what they have, always on the look out for [...]

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March 10, 2008

Mouthpieces

Mechanics talk about engine rebuilds, golfers talk about handicaps and other things, trombone players talk about slide sprays, singers talk about …. well, who knows, but saxophone and clarinet players talk about reeds and mouthpieces. You go anywhere on the web and you will find smart-arses telling you that the set up you have is [...]

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March 6, 2008

Chris Potter and playing live

I finally got around to reading the February issue of Downbeat, which included a very interesting interview with Chris Potter. I’d like to link it for you to read but I haven’t found an online copy yet. I’ll keep looking and post it if and when I find it.Anyway, I’ve been following Chris Potter’s music [...]

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March 3, 2008

Hello!

Welcome to my new blog. If you have arrived hoping to find a website - sorry. It’s broken and fell apart when I started to mess around with it (see About - Please read). Anyway, a new one will be up and running as soon as I find someone to do it for me. (Again, [...]

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